LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The dollar charged to an almost 14-year high and government bond yields rose sharply on Thursday, after the Federal Reserve hiked U.S. interest rates and signalled more would follow at a faster pace next year.

European shares got off to a solid start with banks up almost 2 percent, cheered by the prospect of a boost from higher rates to their lending profits, but the main action was elsewhere.

Bond markets saw yields on short-term U.S. debt surge to the highest since 2009, sending the dollar to peaks last seen in early 2003, which in turn prompted China’s central bank to set the yuan at its weakest level against the greenback since 2008.

The Fed’s anticipated policy path, and expectations U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will get growth motoring, are keeping emerging markets on edge as capital gets sucked from more fragile, export-dependent economies toward dollar-based assets.

The Fed’s rate rise of 25 basis points to 0.5-0.75 percent was well flagged but investors were spooked when the “dot plots” of members’ projections showed a median of three hikes next year, up from two previously.

“You had the Fed come in and be a bit more hawkish that many people, including us, were expecting,” said TD Securities head of global strategy Richard Kelly.

“It wasn’t just the move in the dots, it was the language that was used. There was an acknowledgement that if Trump gets his plans moving through congress you could see the economy pushing higher.”

The change in tone came even as the Fed’s economic projections have hardly been upgraded, suggesting the Fed could accelerate tightening even further if policymakers see firmer evidence of higher growth or inflation.

Fed fund futures <0#FF:> slid to imply an almost 50 percent chance that the Fed will raise rates three times, with two hikes fully priced in already.

The dollar was still moving up in European trading. It hit a 10-month high against the Japanese yen of 117.87 yen while the difference in yields on 10-year U.S. government bonds compared and German ones ballooned to the widest since at least 1990.

U.S. Treasuries yields rose as far as 2.61 percent , having already risen more than 0.7 percentage point since Trump was elected last month. The jump in 2-year Treasury paper was the biggest daily rise since early 2015.

“One of the reasons why a bond market sell-off this time around looks more sustainable is because it can be accompanied by higher equity markets,” Peter Schaffrik, chief European macro strategist at RBC Capital Markets said.